Thomas Jefferson Foster

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Thomas Jefferson Foster (born July 11, 1809 in Nashville , Tennessee , † February 12, 1887 in Lawrence County , Alabama ) was an officer and prominent Confederate politician during the Civil War . He served two terms in the Confederate Congress . He was later elected to the US Congress , but his seat was revoked there.

Career

Thomas Jefferson Foster was the son of Ann Slaughter Hubbard (1770-1850) and Robert Coleman Foster (1769-1844), President of the Senate of Tennessee . At the age of 24 years he married on October 30, 1833 Virginia Prudence Watkins (1816-1837), daughter of a wealthy plantation owner in Lawrence County, Alabama. The couple settled in Courtland , where Foster made a fortune on his own plantation. Foster married then on March 28, 1841 in Lauderdale County Elizabeth Jane Hood (1820-1896). The couple had three children together: James Hood (1843-1884), Robert Coleman (1845-1905) and Annie (* 1847).

After the Alabama secession , Foster raised the 27th Alabama, an infantry regiment in the Confederate Army, and served there as its first colonel . He was instrumental in building Fort Henry to defend the Tennessee River . He then served there under General Lloyd Tilghman until the surrender to Union General Ulysses S. Grant . He then sat as an MP from Alabama in the first and second Confederate Congresses , where he was known as a "graceful orator and skillful debater". During his time at the Confederate Congress, he served on the Committee on Territories and Public Lands and the Committee on Accounts .

In 1865 he was elected to the US Congress, but as a result of the policies of the Radical Republicans and the Reconstruction , former Confederates like Foster were stripped of their congressional seats.

Trivia

Foster was also married to a Mrs. Longshaw.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Thomas Jefferson Foster on The Political Graveyard website
  2. ↑ a b Thomas Jefferson Forster on the website of Respect-Texas.org ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.respect-texas.org
  3. ^ Foster's obituary, Moulton Advertiser, February 24, 1887

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SURNAME Foster, Thomas Jefferson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American officer and Confederate politician during the Civil War
DATE OF BIRTH July 11, 1809
PLACE OF BIRTH Nashville , Tennessee
DATE OF DEATH February 12, 1887
Place of death Lawrence County , Alabama